They tend to go hand in hand, don't they? When something isn't interesting anymore, the negatives seem much more ominous. The benefits don't seem to be worth it

They tend to go hand in hand, don't they? When something isn't interesting anymore, the negatives seem much more ominous. The benefits don't seem to be worth it. Now he has the best of both worlds, deservedly so. He created and was the primary author of a substantial, influential project and that will never be taken from him. Yet he also gets to move on to other things without it dragging him down in perpetuity.